Re: showing which hardware is unclaimed

[Martin Mares]

Hi!

> FWIW, this is what a command on "another OS" does with an unclaimed card:
> 
> # ioscan -fk -C lan
> Class     I  H/W Path  Driver  S/W State   H/W Type     Description
> ====================================================================
> lan       0  0/0/3/0   intl100   CLAIMED     INTERFACE    Intel PCI Pro 
> 10/100Tx Server Adapter
> lan       1  0/1/2/0   igelan    CLAIMED     INTERFACE    HP PCI 
> 1000Base-T Core
> lan       2  0/2/1/0   iether    CLAIMED     INTERFACE    HP A7012-60001 
> PCI/PCI-X 1000Base-T Dual-port Adapter
> lan       3  0/2/1/1   iether    CLAIMED     INTERFACE    HP A7012-60001 
> PCI/PCI-X 1000Base-T Dual-port Adapter
> lan       4  0/3/1/0   ixgbe     UNCLAIMED   UNKNOWN      PCI-X Ethernet 
> (17d55831)
> 
> I'd probably call that "unclaimed" rather than "broken" but that may 
> just be a preference thing.

`lspci -k' already reports which devices are claimed by which driver.

				Have a nice fortnight
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